Word: idealizes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...intellectual courage of those who manage Harvard University. For the premises upon which the Tutorial system was originally founded leave no room for this notion of subordination. Those premises are essentially this; that the University had fostered too long the acquisition of knowledge for credit's sake, that ideally the University should encourage real intellectual interests. To date, the tutorial system has been a systematically discouraged attempt to attain the ideal. It has been hedged on every side by an old and tenacious order, by an unrepentant and deep rooted course system. And yet, even under these conditions...
...This suggestion was based, not primarily on any philosophical objection to war or to its propaganda, but on the practical objection that these fields do not properly lie within the scope of a liberal arts curriculum. Obviously these are not the only courses at Harvard which violate the liberal ideal, and they were chosen largely because of their prominence and their popularity; others, such as Aerial Photography, give equal substance to Dr. Flexner's view that the liberal arts college is coming to be an ideal honored more in the breach than in the observance...
...late years, a considerable body of opinion has maintained that the prisoner ought to be cared for as a person merely maladjusted. And ideally that may be so, especially in the case of the petty criminal and the extremely youthful one. But a reasonable man is often led to wonder why a man who has made himself repeatedly dangerous to society should be treated with such consideration. Does painless penalism pay as large returns as the idealists would like us to believe? Anyone reading in the newspapers of football games in which notorious gangsters and murderers play of sunny autumn...
...interested self-activity under conditions of reasonable freedom instead of "learning" assigned lessons. Above all it has aimed toward individual development and social adjustment, including intelligent, cooperative citizenship. These aims are now quite generally accepted, so that emphasis changes to examining the implications and practical applications of each ideal...
...main point of difference between the Colleges and the Houses is that at Yale there are no tutors. To President Lowell, the House Plan represented the ideal setting for the working out of the tutorial system and the logical consequence of the system. The College Plan has preceded the tutors, however, in New Haven. The Colleges are not with out resident members of the faculty since a Master and about ten "fellows" reside in each unit. The fellows resemble tutors much more than they do the "associates" of the Harvard Houses, since they live in the Colleges and meet...